Re: Tree-sitter and major mode inheritance

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:17:11 -0800
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>  theo@thornhill.no
> 
> If we are already renaming existing modes (cc-<foo>-mode), why don’t we use 
> the generic name <foo>-mode for the virtual parent mode? It would be nicer if 
> the generic mode (<foo>-mode) is an actual mode, with mode hooks, keycaps, 
> etc, rather than simply a dispatch function.

I already said that I prefer not to rename existing modes.  Such
renaming will break too many init files and other Lisp programs.